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Tobacco Farming: The Persistence Of Tradition, Eugene Umberger Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The culture of tobacco has been associated with the history of Kentucky almost from the beginning and remains to this day a vital force in the state’s economy. In this age of scientific and technological advances – of increasing automation – we find that in tobacco farming, hand labor still figures prominently in the production of a major staple crop. This has resulted in the retention of traditional method, technology and terminology, long since lost in the culture of other crops which lent themselves more easily to mechanization.

The study is divided into three parts. Chapter I deals briefly with …

Ua68/1 Forum, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters faculty newsletter regarding faculty research and publications. This issue includes:

• Clarke, Kenneth. Snake Handling & Plato: Identifying Academic Folklore
• Mayhew, Larry. John T. Stahl, obituary

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 1, Frank E. Mcdonald, Janet Hodel, Ronald L. Michael, Phil R. Jack, Louis Winkler, Richard Raichelson, Grant M. Stoltzfus

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Pennsylvania German Tombstone Art of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
• Rain Day in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
• Non-Ordinary Stoneware Pieces from New Geneva and Greensboro, Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XIII: Conjunctions of 1683, 1694, and 1743
• The Social Context of Musical Instruments within the Pennsylvania German Culture
• Tourism and the Amish Way of Life
• Home Brewing Techniques: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 41

The Cedar Grove Community In Oral Folk History, Ada Parker

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The thesis was originally done for the Center for Intercultural & Folk Studies which no longer exists.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, Folk Festival Supplement, Constantine Kermes, Lillian G. Kauffman, Nancy A. Delong, Dean Wright, Paul E. Zecher, John Rohrbach, Ada Robacker, Earl F. Robacker, Carl Ned Foltz, Helen Arndt, John E. Stinsmen, James J. Kelly

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Folk Images of Rural Pennsylvania
• Old Hymns in the Country Church
• The Kutztown Folk Festival is for Children Too
• A Forgotten Art Becoming Popular: Leathercraft
• In the Country Kitchen: Pennsylvania Dutch Dishes are Created by Instinct
• Visible but Unseen: The Festival Service Crews
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Three Times - And Sold!
• Basketmaking at the Festival
• The Christmas House
• Music on the Main Stage
• Metal Casting in Sand at the Festival
• Windmills and Farm Water Supply: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 40

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 4, Michael Moloney, Friedrich Krebs, Louis Winkler

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Irish Folklife Studies: A Present-Day Appraisal
• Palatine Emigration Materials from the Neckar Valley, 1726-1766
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XII: Contemporary Almanacs
• Cider and Wine Production: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 39

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 44, No. 4, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Administration Documents

WKU alumni magazine. Features the following articles:

• Dilmarter, Ronald. What Is a Cave, Anyway?
• Gray, David. Water Quality Studied
• Snodgrass, Jim. Spelunking in Big Cave Country
• Morse, Mike. The People of Cave Country
• Wilson, Gordon. Remember When . . . Folklore of the Cave Region
• The Seventh Wonder 'Makes It' to Celluloid - 'First' Cave Film - Mammoth Cave
• 1+2+4=1 Great Season - Track & Field
• Given, Ed. The Little Man Who Stood Tall, Al Almond
• Sutherland, David. Teacher Corps: Western Interns Learn/Teach on the Job
• Thompson, Kelly. An Appreciation - Gordon Wilson
• Cassidy, Frederic. Importance of Depth Collecting - …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 3, Paul H. Douglas, Vernon H. Nelson, Carol Wojtowicz, Theodore W. Jentsch, William Woys Weaver, Louis Winkler

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Material Culture of the Harmony Society
• German Script Course, 1974
• Play in Philadelphia
• Education, Occupation, and Economics Among Old Order Mennonites of the East Penn Valley
• Pennsylvania German Architecture: Bibliography in European Backgrounds
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XI: Christoph Saur's Almanacs
• Reading Matter in the Pennsylvania Home: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 38

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 2, Hilda Adam Kring, Beulah S. Hostetler, Francis J. Puig, Monroe H. Fabian, Louis Winkler, Pamela James

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Cult of St. Walburga in Pennsylvania
• An Old Order River Brethren Love Feast
• The Porches of Quaker Meeting Houses in Chester and Delaware Counties
• John Daniel Eisenbrown, Frakturist
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology X: Christopher Witt's Device
• The American Breakfast, Circa 1873-1973
• Grandparents in Traditional Culture: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 37

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 1, Albert F. Jordan, Theodore W. Jentsch, Carol Shiels Roark, Suzanne Cox, Louis Winkler

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Some Early Moravian Builders in America
• Old Order Mennonite Family Life in the East Penn Valley
• Historic Yellow Springs: The Restoration of an American Spa
• The Use of Speech at Two Auctions
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology IX: Johann Friederich Schmidt
• Courtship and Marriage: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 36

The Beeson Farmstead: A Study Of The Functional Aspects Of A Black Farm In The Richland Community, Annelen Archbold

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study documents the lifestyle on a small, prosperous black farmstead in the Richland community of Butler County, Kentucky. It is based on extensive fieldwork and interviews conducted with Percy Beeson, owner of the farm for aver fifty years. The result of the fieldwork and interviews was the documentation of how this farmstead, maintained without mechanical farm equipment, worked as a functional unit on a year-round basis.

As a functional unit, the Beeson farmstead is described in terms of the Beeson family and their ownership of the farm and the breakdown of the property into two dependent units. In the …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, Folk Festival Supplement, Don Yoder, Martha S. Best, Barbara B. Bomberger, Lester Breininger, Ernest Angstadt, Richard C. Gougler, Marsha Delong, Dorothy L. Longstreet, Peg Zecher, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Twenty-Five Years of the Folk Festival
• Our Farmer's Market
• Simple Basics of Egg Decorating
• The Folk Festival's Bookstore
• Setting Up the Festival
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Behind the Scenes of "We Remain Unchanged"
• Granges at the Kutztown Folk Festival
• How to Design Pressed Flower Pictures
• There is This Place - And These People
• Metalcrafting at the Festival
• Hex Signs and Magical Protection of House and Barn: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 35

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 4, Scott Hambly, Waln K. Brown, Denis Mercier, Angela Varesano, Elizabeth Mathias, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Berton E. Beck, Claude K. Deischer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Cultural Learning Through Game Structure: A Study of Pennsylvania German Children's Games
• "Nipsy": The Ethnography of a Traditional Game of Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region
• The Game as Creator of the Group in an Italian-American Community
• Pennsylvania Town Views of a Century Ago
• "The Barber's Ghost": A Legend Becomes a Folktale
• Grain Harvesting in the Nineteenth Century
• My Experience With the Dialect
• Harvest on the Pennsylvania Farm: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 34

A Comparative Study Of German And Kentucky Moon Beliefs, Katherine Martin

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A body of moon beliefs from Kentucky was compared with a body of moon beliefs from Germany to discover similarities and dissimilarities between the two and to ascertain how well a body of beliefs (specifically moon beliefs) can be transferred from the Old World to the New World. The presence of a German culture in Kentucky was established and parallels were drawn between the structure, function, and esthetic aspects of both groups of beliefs. The Kentucky moon beliefs that migrated from 'Germany showed a surprising persistence, considering the move to America, change of language, and exposure to unfamiliar cultures. Some …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Louis Winkler, Susan Stewart, Eleanor Yoder, W. Ray Sauers, Mac E. Barrick

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Victorian Wall Mottoes
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology VIII: David Rittenhouse
• Sociological Aspects of Quilting in Three Brethren Churches of Southeastern Pennsylvania
• Nicknaming in an Amish-Mennonite Community
• Fruit Harvesting and Preservation in Early Pennsylvania
• Folklore in the Library: Old Schuylkill Tales
• Mills and Milling in Pennsylvania: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 33

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Vol. Ii, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

Articles written by honors program students. They were originally research projects, class papers or essays written for academic credit, but in each case the student has done further work editing and improving his or her manuscript for this publication. The articles represent a broad range of interests and disciplines, and they indicate a healthy attempt on the part of at least some students to dig for deeper knowledge and understanding than is usually associated with undergraduate study.

• Greene, Bruce. The Traditional Fiddle Music of South-Central Kentucky
• Moody, Marlin. Some Effects of the Herbicide Glyphosate on Johnson Grass Rhizomes
• Jones, Larry. …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 2, Jane Spencer Edwards, Carol Kessler, Ronald L. Michael, Heinrich Rembe

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Wills and Inventories of the First Purchasers of the Welsh Tract
• Ten Tulpehocken Inventories: What Do They Reveal About a Pennsylvania German Community?
• Wagon Taverns as Seen Through Local Source Material
• Emigration Materials From Lambsheim in the Palatinate
• Household Furnishings: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 32

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 1, Louis Winkler, Arthur J. Lawton, Robert Thomas Teske, Ronald L. Michael, Ronald Carlisle, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology VII: Carl Friederich Egelmann (1782-1860)
• The Ground Rules of Folk Architecture
• The Eikonostasi Among Greek-Philadelphians
• The Peter Colley Tavern, 1801-1854
• The Wilderness and the City
• The Rural Marketing System: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 31

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, Folk Festival Supplement, John E. Stinsmen, Louise Hyde, Cyrus Hyde, Richard C. Gougler, Martha S. Best, Richard Shaner, Lester Breininger, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Sounds of the Folk Festival: A Visitor's Walking Tour
• Herbs at Kutztown
• Amish Weddings
• Food Varieties at the Festival
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Taverns and Tavern Lore of Dutchland
• The Lure of Tinsmithing
• Folk Whittling in Pennsylvania
• The Dance in Pennsylvania - Current Status: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 30

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Guy Tilghman Hollyday, William Woys Weaver, Louis Winkler, Phil R. Jack, Ronald L. Michael, Albert Cappel

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Let's Talk About Slate
• Ephrata Cloister Wills
• A Blacksmith's "Summerkich"
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology VI: Astrological Philosophy
• Stoneware from New Geneva and Greensboro, Pennsylvania
• American Emigration Materials from Pfeddersheim
• Folk Medicine - Home Remedies: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 29

The Little People Of Pea Ridge, David Sutherland

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Cumberland County, Kentucky, is situated on the Tennessee line just at the western edge of the Appalachian Mountains. The county's terrain is typical of land in the foothills of a mountain range and varies from flat farmland and good bottomland along the Cumberland River to steep, wooded hillsides and rough, rocky ridge tops. Areas often take part of their names from outstanding topographic features of the land. Community names such as White's Bottom, Howard's Bottom, Cherry Tree Ridge and Bow Schoolhouse Ridge are common in Cumberland County. On Pea Ridge, which runs along the north shore of Dale Hollow Lake, …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, No. 3, Burt Feintuch, Susan J. Ellis, Waln K. Brown, Louis Winkler, Friedrich Krebs

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Frank Boccardo: Toward an Ethnography of a Chairmaker
• Traditional Food on the Commercial Market: The History of Pennsylvania Scrapple
• The Pennsylvania Dutch Carriage Trade
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology V: Religion and Astronomy
• American Emigration from Baden-Durlach in the Years 1749-1751
• The House - External and Internal Orientation: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 28
• Pennsylvania Emigrants from Friedrichstal

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, No. 2, Monroe H. Fabian, Martha S. Best, Karen M. Spitulnik, Louis Winkler, Friedrich Krebs

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Easton Bible Artist Identified
• Christmas Customs in the Lehigh Valley
• The Inn Crowd: The American Inn, 1730-1830
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology IV: Tombstones
• Emigrants of the 18th Century from the Northern Palatinate
• Butchering on the Pennsylvania Farm: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 27

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, No. 1, Carroll Hopf, Ellen J. Gehret, Alan G. Keyser, Louis Winkler, Mac E. Barrick, Friedrich Krebs

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Calligraphic Drawings and Pennsylvania German Fraktur
• Flax Processing in Pennsylvania: From Seed to Fiber
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology III: Comets and Meteors
• Rural Economics in Central Pennsylvania, 1850-1867
• Palatine Emigrants to America from the Oppenheim Area, 1742-1749
• Fruit Harvesting and Preservation: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 26

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 4, Robert A. Barakat, Louis Winkler, Juliana Roth, Robert L. Dluge Jr., Werner Hacker, Friedrich Krebs

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Herr and Zeller Houses
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology II: The Moon
• Travel Journals as a Folklife Research Tool: Impressions of the Pennsylvania Germans
• My Interview with a Powwower
• American Emigrants from the Territories of the Bishropric of Speyer
• Emigrants to America from the Duchy of Zweibrucken
• Funeral Customs: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 24

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, Folk Festival Supplement, Leroy Gensler, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, Richard C. Gougler, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Richard Shaner, Wayne F. Cardinalli

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• A Look at the Festival
• The Tradition of the Dutch-English Comedian
• We Waste Not
• Amish Barn-Raising
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Quilting Traditions of the Dutch Country
• Recollections of Witchcraft in the Oley Hills
• The Festival Potters
• Herbs and Herb Lore: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 25

Pillow, Shirley (Fa 1348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1348. Student folk studies project titled “Quilting” which includes a description of the traditional folk art of quilting in Logan County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include a brief description of traditional practice, tools, photos, quilt blocks, informant’s name, location, and text classification.

Newman, Janice (Fa 1367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1367. Student folk studies project titled “Quilting (Bertha Abney)” which includes information about traditional quilting practices in Jefferson County, Kentucky. All of the information comes from an interview with Newman’s family friend, Bertha Abney. Project includes a narrative paper about the experience and sheets that may include an illustration, photo, quilt pattern’s name, brief description of a traditional practice or quilt pattern.

Anderson, Faye S. (Fa 1349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1349. Folklife project titled "Spinning" by Faye S. Anderson for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Project includes an illustrated paper about the spinning process as explained by Maggie Spear of the Pea Ridge, Cumberland County, Kentucky. Also includes samples of carded wool, single thread yarn, and double thread yarn.

Bradley, Margaret (Fa 1357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1357. Folklife project titled "Quilting" by Margaret Bradley for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Project includes a paper about quilting and quilt patterns in Hart County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include a brief description of quilt pattern, origin, and informant’s name, age, and address.